Letters

Most commentators have addressed the evolution questions in this survey. My eye was caught by a different statement:

"Geocentrism is the required belief of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement"

Are they serious? Leaving aside the problem that astronomy has nothing to do with religion, and hasn't since we stopped worshipping the planets as gods, are the leaders of this movement not aware that this crazy dogma has been tried before?

On 24 February 1616, to be precise, by the Qualifiers of the Holy Inquisition. The result was a "dis-aster" from which the perpetrators have never fully recovered. Why would anyone walk that road again?

It wasn't until the Moon landings and NASA showed the Vatican photos of Earth as a globe that they finally offically accepted it as such. I'm not surprised that some still believe in nonsense despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. That's the same problem with creationists as well. No amount of real evidence is ever going to convince these fools of reality.